Notes on the Geography of Northern India: Kalinjar

Northeast of Ajaigarh and in northernmost Satna District, Kalinjar is an ancient shrine and fort, known to Ptolemy as Kanagora. It sits atop an almost impregnable 1000-foot-high hill, with cliffs on all sides. Hindu at first, then Muslim, it was in the hands of Daryan Singh when it fell to Colonel Martindell in 1812. The British retained it as a fortress, and it proved its value to them in 1857.